| Description | first 8 pages printed (rules and guidance for officers, adjutant, quarter-master, surgeon, paymaster, non-commissioned officers, and general orders: over the names of Major. B.Sparrow and Lt-Col. P. Panton); remainder in manuscript and containing : battalion nominal roll of officers (Col. Commandant Lord Warren Bulkeley) and n.c.o's no.1 Company nominal roll of rank and file (by platoons?) ; Company officers named as Captain John Price, 1st. Lt. James Webster, 2nd. Lt. John Paynter, and Ensign Thomas Jones. There follow copy letters from Lt. Col. Peppard Knight, Inspecting Field Officer of Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps in Shropshire and North Wales, per pro H.R.H. Lt. Gen. Prince William of Gloucester; Major Sparrow; the Office of Ordnance; Horse Guards; the Judge Advocate General's Office; etc; etc. There are also notes and aide-memoire by Capt. Price. Topics include pay schedules and queries; ranks; additional articles of war; amendments to General Orders (firelocks and musquets); copy circulars; ammunition returns; notices of inspection; etc. The concluding items are newspaper cuttings; regulations for the establishment, allowances, etc, of Corps and Companies of Volunteer Infantry; abstract of return of all Volunteer and Yeomanry Corps, by counties; London Gazette (2nd Oct., 1803) notice of military appointments (incl. Anglesey) with manuscript amendments covering resignations, etc; and a notice by the Commissary General's Office inviting tenders for the supply of bread, forage, fuel and straw to H.M.Troops in the 13 districts of the United Kingdom. |
| AdminHistory | This was the Militia Orderly Book of Captain John Price (of Cadnant) He commanded the 1st. Company, 2nd. Battalion, The Loyal Anglesey Volunteers |